Vendor & Third-Party Security Risk Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's third-party risk management program and vendor security assessment practices. Our assessment examines your vendor security evaluation processes, contractual security requirements, ongoing monitoring capabilities, and supply chain security controls to identify vulnerabilities in your extended enterprise and provide a roadmap for enhanced third-party risk management.
In scope
- Vendor security assessment methodology review
- Third-party risk tiering evaluation
- Supply chain attack surface analysis
- Vendor security questionnaire assessment
- Third-party contract security requirements
- Vendor access management review
- Vendor incident response coordination
- Continuous monitoring capabilities
- Fourth-party risk visibility
- Cloud service provider security assessment
- Strategic vendor security oversight
- Third-party risk governance
You receive
- Third-party risk program assessment report
- Vendor security framework recommendations
- Risk-based assessment methodology
- Vendor tiering model
- Contract security requirements template
- Continuous monitoring strategy
- Supply chain risk mitigation plan
- Critical vendor management playbook
- Vendor incident response procedures
- Implementation roadmap and timeline
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Third-Party Risk Assessment
$38K
Program review for a vendor inventory of up to 100. Assesses methodology, risk tiering, questionnaires, contract security terms and vendor access management, sampling up to 5 completed vendor assessments. Program assessment report and roadmap.
- vendors
- 100
- TPRM methodology and governance review
- Risk tiering evaluation
- Questionnaire and contract security requirements review
- Sample review of up to 5 completed vendor assessments
- Program assessment report and roadmap
- — Building a new assessment methodology or tiering model
- — Continuous monitoring strategy
- — Assessing individual vendors on the client's behalf
- — Fourth-party and supply chain analysis
Comprehensive Vendor Security Program
$70K
Vendor inventory of up to 500, sampling up to 15 assessments. We build the risk-based assessment methodology, tiering model, contract security requirements template, continuous monitoring strategy, critical vendor playbook and vendor incident response procedures.
- vendors
- 500
- Everything in the program review tier
- Risk-based assessment methodology written
- Vendor tiering model
- Contract security requirements template
- Continuous monitoring strategy and vendor incident procedures
- — Custom assessment tooling
- — Supply chain risk quantification
- — Rollout support and training
- — Performing vendor assessments or onsite vendor audits
Enterprise Supply Chain Security Framework
$110K
Vendor inventory of up to 2,500, sampling up to 30 assessments. Adds supply chain attack surface and fourth-party analysis, risk quantification for the top 25 critical vendors, custom questionnaires and scoring workbooks, and rollout support with the vendor management team.
- vendors
- 2500
- Everything in the advanced tier
- Supply chain and fourth-party risk analysis
- Risk quantification for up to 25 critical vendors
- Custom questionnaires and scoring workbooks
- Implementation support and team training
- — Onsite audits of individual vendors
- — Operating the vendor assessment queue as a managed service
- — TPRM platform licences
- — Inventories above 2,500 vendors (scoped separately)
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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